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That's very nice but the markers don't point to the story. A classic example is an article about the MotoGP at Donington Park points to Donington Village 55 miles away, an article about a Road closed in Birmingham points to Rode in Somerset, 110 miles away. These types of maps work if the data is accurate and more importantly usable. In this case searching for "placenames" and automatically pointing to what comes first doesn't work.

The BBC's RSS feeds don't contain any geo information other than place names, the script attempts to work out where the news items are coming from (it tries to pick the most likely using a simple algorithm) but it's not always correct!